Sexing and Gendering the Succession Myth in Ancient Greece and the Near East.įor more information, and to order, visit: and enter the code GMEGNEM21 at the checkout.
Fashioning Pandora: Ancient Near Eastern Creation Scenes and Hesiod 16. Fate and Authority in Mesopotamian Literature and the Iliad 15. Comparison: Relevance and Significance of Linguistic Features ġ4. Borrowing, Dialogue and Rejection: Intertextual Interfaces in the Late BronzeAge 12. Mythical Time in Mesopotamia Part IIIDifference: 11. Tales of Kings and Cup-bearers in History and Myth 9. The World of Gods and Men: Animal and Plant Disputation Poems and Fables in Babylonia, Persia, and Greece 8. Playing with Traditions: Deliberate Allusions to Near Eastern Myth in Hesiod's Story of the Five Human Races 6. The Scholar and the Poet: Standard Babylonian Gilgameš VI vs. Politics, Cult, and Scholarship: Aspects of the Transmission History of Marduk and Ti.amat's Battle 4. Siting the Gods: Narrative, Cult, and Hybrid Communities in the Iron Age Mediterranean 3. ‘Let Those Important Primeval Deities Listen': The Social Setting of the Hurro-Hittite Song of Emergence 2. While direct textual comparisons still have something to show us, the methodologies advanced here turn their attention to deeper structures and wider dynamics of interaction and influence that respect the cultural autonomy and integrity of all the ancient participants. Old cases are re-examined, new examples discussed, and the whole range of scholarly opinions, past and present, are analysed, critiqued, and contextualised. Focusing on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told about the gods and their relationships with humankind, the individual treatments draw together specialists from both fields, creating for the first time a truly interdisciplinary synthesis. The Cycle of the Kings relates the stories of legendary High Kings of Ireland, such as Niall Noígíallach (Niall of the Nine Hostages), Conn Cétchathach (Conn of the Hundred Battles) and Brian Boruma.This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity – the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods.
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The Fenian Cycle contains the exploits of the Fianna and their leader Fionn mac Cumhaill. This includes legends associated with those such as Conchobar mac Nessa, Queen Medb and Cú Chulainn. It comes mostly from a body of text known as the Lebor Gabála Érenn (translating literally as The Book of the Taking of Ireland, though usually known in English as The Book of Invasions.) The Ulster Cycle tells the story of prominent heroes and rulers of Ulaid. Among Celts in close contact with Ancient Rome, such as the Gauls and Celtiberians, their mythology did not survive the Roman Empire, their subsequent conversion to Christianity, and. Like other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure. The Mythological Cycle is in Irish mythology only it describes various mythological conquests of Ireland, most notably, those by the Tuatha Dé Danann and Milesians. Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, apparently the religion of the Iron Age Celts. Gaelic Mythology is usually divided into four "cycles:" the Mythological Cycle, Ulster Cycle (formerly the Red Branch Cycle), Fenian Cycle (or the Ossianic Cycle), and Cycle of the Kings (or the Kings' Cycle/Historical Cycle). The mythologies of Ireland and Scotland are often referred to as two separate entities due to some differences (mostly caused by the assimilation of the Picts with the Gaels of Scotland,) but the do share large portions of their mythology. Gaelic mythology is a term referring to the mythology of the Gaelic-speaking Celts, those being, for the most part, the Celts who inhabited Ireland and Scotland. The Romans later came into contact with many of the Celtic tribes and assimilated deities into their pantheon, sometimes equating them with Roman or Greek gods. Celtic mythology varies greatly by region, though there are some things common throughout, for example, the Irish form of the god Nodens is Nuada. The Celts were an Iron Age people who inhabited the British Isles (including Ireland), Scotland, Gaul (now France and the Low Countries), Central Europe, parts of modern Turkey and Italy and the Iberian Peninsula. This image is thought to depict the Celtic god Taranis.Ĭeltic mythology refers to the polytheistic religious beliefs of the Celts. A detail from the inside panel C of the Gundestrup cauldron (200BCE-300CE).